Re: XPath 2.0+ Compatibility in XForms 2.0 Testsuite

This sounds like a good plan. What is it exactly that fails with the comparisons? 


Steven

On Thursday 22 April 2021 09:10:18 (+02:00), Alain Couthures wrote:


Hello,


The main form of the testsuite does not currently work well with XPath 2.0+ (with Compatibility Mode set to false) because of default text comparisons even with numeric values.


This is a well-documented difference with XPath 1.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-incompat-in-false-mode


Adding an explicit number() function call in expressions sounds like a good compatibility solution for both XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0+ engines:
“. > ../count” to be replaced with “number(.) > number(../count)”


It might be interesting to add a mention to this in XForms 2.0 specifications. What do you think?


--Alain